I call it the Fast Food Macros Database, and what I'm doing is gather the macro nutrition information on fast food offerings. You choose your restaurant and then tick off the items you want to eat. It keeps a running total of the fat, protein, carbohydrates and calories.

There's a diet plan out there that has gotten pretty popular called If It Meets Your Macros, which is a plan where you figure out your macros and pretty much eat whatever you want. As long as you hit your macros, you are good to go.

For the technically minded, it's running on a virtual machine (Virtual Box). I have a pretty robust workstation running Windows 7 with 32 gigs of memory and dual processor quad core processors.

I set up a 4 gig/2 core virtual machine and installed an old copy of Windows 2003 to be the Internet Information Server.

I set up another 4 gig/2 core virtual machine also with Windows 2003 and installed SQL Server 2008 Express edition that runs as the back end. SQL Server is the last MS SQL Server that runs on Windows 2003 BTW....

Friday, November 01, 2013

Many hosting companies had detailed errors turned off, as information in the error messages can often provide hacker with clues that allow them to hack web sites. But as developers, we all know that just because everything worked great in the development environment, doesn't mean it all works when we upload to production. And those error messages are essential when debugging Classic ASP.

So you FTP your site up, go and get the 500 Internal error, with no clue as to what it is. Here's how to get those detailed error messages back so you can debug.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Yeah, I just completed a new website for aficionados of tactical tomahawks, hand axes and hatchets called TomahawkDB.If you've ever considered buying a tomahawk, hand axe, or hatchet, this site will give you all the information you need to make an informed buying decision. Stats include weight, length, blade width, blade length, steel type, steel hardness, handle type and pricing. So check it out, that's an order!

Monday, December 10, 2012

All of the applications are free to use, freeware or open-source. A couple of them have a trial period (you can still use the software after the trial has run out) or there's a purchasable version as well. I've also listed several similar applications (like Firefox and Chrome for browsers or Foxit Reader and Sumatra PDF for PDF readers) so that you can find your your own personal favorite. You don't need both, but it's nice to have something to chose from.

Steam - PC-game client for PC, Mac and Linux (Linux version is still in closed beta).

f.lux - Makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. Must have if you have problems with going to sleep or have problems with eyes or headaches.

Transcendence - Transendence is a real time space exploration game with some roguelike elements.

[King Arthur's Gold (http://kag2d.com/en/download) - Aka. KAG. Takes the building aspect from Dwarf Fortress, the strategy from Age of Empires and the class system from TF2 and mixes it with online multiplayer mayhem.

Spelunky is a roguelike inspired platformer made by Derek Yu. The Xbox remake heavily expands upon the original game in every single way. The PC version has also a lot of different mods which you can download. If you're going to download the original PC version, then I highly recommend you download the unofficial 1.3 version of the game. It fixes a lot of bugs and it also runs much smoother.

The free antivirus war popped up again. Basically, all of their success rates are very close together. Right now, I'm using avast! instead of avira. Honestly, as long as you don't go for something weird, any of the free AV programs will work.

Here are some more good ones:

CDBurnerXP - if you still burn CDs or DVDs, this is probably the best free option.